Hi All,
Having stumbled upon this excellent site recently, I have tried one base and a couple of recipes. Which of course brought on questions.
1. As this is BIR are the recipes defaulted to serve 1 person?
2. I tried ChewyTikka's 3 hour / pressure cooker base which I thought gave me a good result. I have since realised it is relatively old and wondered what you spice kings, curry masters, Jedi and Admins are using currently as a base. Chewy, what are you using as a base?
3. When a recipe mentions chilli powder is this dried and ground chillis or is it the chilli powder mix I would expect to use in a chilli con carne?
4. Given we are all experimenting with fresh ingredients and blending different spices why is there frequent reference to a shop bought mix? Why use Tesco curry powder when we all have the spices in our cupboard to produce a decent garam masala?
Erm, I think that's it for the time being!

Thanks in advance

I used ChewyTikka 1 hour pressure cooker base, used 500g passata as I didn't have tubed tomato paste, but didn't strain/sieve it after blitzing as the consistency looked good, then Admins jalfrezi King Prawn recipe with diced chicken thighs, skin removed, used the thigh skin fried on high for taste and oil/fat, removed before spices went in. Any mention of curry powder I added fresh garam masala (I'll add the mix if anyone wants). Now let's see if I can upload the pictures.